An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 7035-00-009-8705
NSN 5835-00-723-2505
NSN 5965-00-328-6884
NSN 6620-01-425-2750
NSN 6150-00-497-2163
NSN 6645-00-389-3370
NSN 5895-00-465-6273
NSN 5945-01-118-9654
NSN 5930-01-226-3823
NSN 6650-00-520-5785
NSN 6110-01-237-6426
NSN 5945-01-462-1555